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Djibouti
Chinese companies go on the attack

The trip to Beijing by President Ismail Omar Guelleh in July 2012 is beginning to bear fruit. Contracts for Chinese companies are coming in fast and furiously. [...]

Published on 04.01.2013 at 22:03 GMT

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Allana Potash Corp
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China Merchants Group
Djibouti Dry Port
Doraleh Container Terminal
Huawei Technologies
Port autonome international de Djibouti
Port de Djibouti
Sinopec

Djibouti
US base faces twin challenges of Al-Shabaab and China

The geostrategic location of Djibouti means that it is the trade hub of the Horn as well being the nexus [...]

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Djibouti
Chinese military base in return for loan rescheduling

The ministers of foreign affairs, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, and finance, [...]

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Djibouti
EDD’s Djama Ali Guelleh strikes a new deal with Shanghai Electric

Djama Ali Guelleh, the powerful managing director of Electricite de Djibouti (EDD) and cousin of the late Roble Olhaye Oudine, [...]

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Spotlight | Djibouti
Ismail Omar Guelleh goes on a shopping spree in China on credit

True to his plan to transform his country into a kind of small Singapore and his ambition to be re-elected president in 2016 through a policy of instigating major infrastructure projects, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) is investing without counting [.

Subscribers only Politics 13.03.2015

Djibouti
Train project goes off the rails

The construction of a railway from Addis Ababa to the Djibouti port Doraleh has had its first setbacks.

Subscribers only Business 02.01.2015

Djibouti
IOG now battling against Dubai

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has not swallowed the Dubai courts’ refusal to extradite Abdourahman Boreh. His retaliation was not a long time coming.

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Djibouti, United States
Washington offers sweetener to IOG

During her meeting with President Guelleh, American National Security Advisor Susan Rice expressed concerns about the Chinese plan for a military base in Djibouti.

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Djibouti
CGCOC Djibouti

The Chinese giant construction company, which is also active in [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.10.2013

Horn of Africa
Afars worried by death of Meles

Two hundred Afars from Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea or from the Diaspora in Europe and the United States, converged on Brussels to meet from 30 August to 2 September.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2012

Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland
The war of ports has begun

Just as Dubai World Ports is negotiating a contract to run the port of Berbera in Somaliland, Djibouti inked a port cooperation agreement with a Chinese company.

Subscribers only Business 20.07.2012

Djibouti
Problems of the Tadjourah corridor

The construction of a new port in Tadjourah and a railway line from there to Ethiopia has hit against certain problems for a variety of reasons.

Subscribers only Business 06.07.2012

Djibouti
Time for a break with Dubai

The Djibouti government is working at dismantling one by one the trade partnerships with Dubai instigated by the opponent Abdourahman Boreh.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2011

Djibouti
IOG and YEB still battling on

The former Minister for the Interior, Yacin Elmi Bouh, is still standing up to President Ismail Omar Guelleh. But the latter has found a good opportunity to criminalise him.

Subscribers only Politics 14.10.2011

Djibouti
Maersk helps himself to containers

A subsidiary of Maersk has obtained the monopoly of the activities of stuffing and unstuffing containers. A godsend for its agent in Djibouti, Ahmed Osman Guelleh.

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Djibouti
CMA CGM bows out

The port of Doraleh has become too expensive for the French shipping company. It is moving its container transhipment service to Oman.

Subscribers only Business 30.10.2009

Djibouti
Giants battle for bulk solids terminal

Dubai Port World wants to persuade the Djibouti President to whittle away the monopoly held by the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein al Amoudi.

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Spotlight | Djibouti
Battle for succession ahead of time

The rich Djibouti businessman Abdurahman Mahamoud Boreh, who had made a very substantial contribution to President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's election campaign in 1999, is now at daggers drawn with the presidential couple. He had been replaced at the head of [.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2008

Djibouti
Soap opera of the bulk terminal

The stand-off between the Djibouti government and SDTV has resolved with signing a codicil to the 2000 contract to build a bulk terminal in Djibouti.

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Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

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US base faces twin challenges of Al-Shabaab and China

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Chinese military base in return for loan rescheduling

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IOG now battling against Dubai

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Washington offers sweetener to IOG

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